现在我知其奥妙
“Now that I know the essence of it,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
却不知其中的奥妙
“I failed to grasp the essence of it.”
现在我知其奥妙
“Now that I know the essence of it,”
却已是物是人非
“everything has changed.”
“I finally understand the true meaning now, but it is already too late.”
Traditional Chinese culture places high emotional value on retrospective realization paired with the sadness of irreversibility ('物是人非').
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to understand the subtleties or hidden secrets of something
A literary and refined expression used when one finally grasps a profound truth or technical mystery.